Ghana

Books in this genre are set in or about Ghana.

Homegoing
Transcendent Kingdom
His Only Wife
Ghana Must Go
The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born
Wife of the Gods (Darko Dawson #1)
Changes: A Love Story
Maame
The Missing American (Emma Djan Investigation #1)
The Hundred Wells of Salaga
Our Sister Killjoy
Tail of the Blue Bird
Open Water
North to Paradise
Children of the Street (Darko Dawson #2)
Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El SaadawiAya by Marguerite AbouetNervous Conditions by Tsitsi DangarembgaSeason of Migration to the North by Tayeb SalihThe Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba
Tour d'Afrique
71 books — 21 voters
Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradCry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Africa (fiction and nonfiction)
1,788 books — 1,669 voters

Homegoing by Yaa GyasiThe Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born by Ayi Kwei ArmahWife of the Gods by Kwei QuarteyGhana Must Go by Taiye SelasiOur Sister Killjoy by Ama Ata Aidoo
Books Set in Ghana
136 books — 52 voters

Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeNo Longer at Ease by Chinua AchebeSeason of Migration to the North by Tayeb SalihA Grain of Wheat by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'oThe River Between by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
African Writers Series
239 books — 63 voters


Cups and Rings and Drawings. I stopped by a famed park, Picked a blank sheet And drew a cup. For me, it represented me holding myself up in a storm, It represented the start of life, Something to pour out every lesson learnt Out of every misfortune we’ve ever been. The cup — the container to hold chocolate drink Water. Wine and strawberries. I drew a ring, A marriage between blessing and joy The bloom of flowers in spring The sprouting of leaves in midsummer And the smell of fresh ...more
J.Y. Frimpong

Anansi, your four gifts raised to Nyame grant you no power over the stories I tell, stories that build like dew, alerting you but creating no music when they drop onto the drums of our sky. Take my ‘gift ’, words bound in time, directly to him and tell me if his features betray recognition or sorrow.
Derek Owusu, That Reminds Me

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